CNN reports that jellyfish are increasingly clogging and incapacitating plants around the world by inhabiting cooling-water intake lines.

A plant in Sweden was shut down for this reason earlier this week, and more similar incidents have been seen around the world. Other attacks by the gelatinous menace have been seen in the United States, Japan, Israel and even Scotland. In South Korea alone the cost of the problem is estimated to be $300 million in damages.

And then? Unfortunately for the jellyfish, they shred them. The robots use a mulching system which can "process" 900 kilograms of jellyfish per hour - or about 6,000 individual jellyfish.

The team is now planning further tests to see if they can add more units to the swarm, and develop a commercial plan for the horrifying, but probably necessary, devices.

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